These two lenses are proving to be more elusive to nail down. Current Canon says they’re begin shipping in May, however 2 retailers I spoke to have said they’re now being told the end of June to the beginning of July for availability.

Agreed. It's not 'holding to the end of June' it's yet another delay. Well, just business as usual, I suppose.

Yeah it is odd how 'mid june' turned into 'end of june' (a two week delay) and how it's positioned as holding position - still 4 weeks from now is better then the 9 months from now we started with so here's hoping it'll finally stick!

Is Canon going to miss the Olympics with large numbers of 1Dx's? And what about the 200-400 zoom?

Maybe the assign the whole production capacity to olympia photographers. With the 5D3 being much closer to be a real alternative the might have reduced lifetime volume, thus a slower introduction.The 200-400? At least a really official announcement would be nice, a bit more then the mock-up w/o much detail. At least my worries about the 400/2,8II acquisition being premature weren't justified.

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zsj11

Before the London Olympics, there are Olympic Trials in the US, most of which will be held in June! Apparently 1DX is not going to make it. I have cancelled my pre-order from Adorama and will be using 1D IV and 5D III instead.

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chrysek

Canon screwed me over, I am going to european soccer cup and was counting on this "sport" camera to take with me, now 2 weeks to the game its certainly will not happen. Oh well. This feels like 1Dx is year old camera

arbitrage

Aarrggg..... been waiting on the 600II for a while now, I have it preordered, I think I'm first or second in line at the shop.

People talk about the Olympics and Canon missing the date. However, the big name sports shooters seem to already be using the 1DX as it has been spotted at all sorts of recent events (golf, tennis, F1, etc). I would guess that Canon is actively producing 1DX's and 500 and 600s right now but that the initial stock is just going out to all the pro sports agencies. I don't think there will be any shortage of 1DXs in the hands of the pros at the olympics. Most of them shoot 400 2.8s over the 500 and 600 so that won't be an issue either.

Us mere mortals will continue to wait with our 10s of thousands of dollars burning holes in our pockets

Aarrggg..... been waiting on the 600II for a while now, I have it preordered, I think I'm first or second in line at the shop.

People talk about the Olympics and Canon missing the date. However, the big name sports shooters seem to already be using the 1DX as it has been spotted at all sorts of recent events (golf, tennis, F1, etc). I would guess that Canon is actively producing 1DX's and 500 and 600s right now but that the initial stock is just going out to all the pro sports agencies. I don't think there will be any shortage of 1DXs in the hands of the pros at the olympics. Most of them shoot 400 2.8s over the 500 and 600 so that won't be an issue either.

Us mere mortals will continue to wait with our 10s of thousands of dollars burning holes in our pockets

This is SO disappointing! You would hope that Canon would reduce the price a bit as a good will gesture for all of us that have been waiting so long . . . . I actually thought about getting the 5Dmk3, but after I compared 6 fps to the 10 fps on my 1dmk3 (not to say anything how 12 frames would be), I decided that 6 would be too slow. The 1Dx now is so "old news" now. It better be absolutely perfect or as perfect as any camera can be! Gheesh!